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More details about Ryan Routh, the alleged second would-be assassin of former President Donald J. Trump are emerging with his son saying his dad hates the GOP nominee like all “reasonable” people do.
Two months after Trump nearly had his head blown off on live television at a rally in Butler, PA, Routh traveled thousands of miles from his home in Hawaii to South Florida where if not for an eagle-eyed Secret Service agent, would have had his name etched into history along with other infamous political assassins.
Fortunately for America, the attempted assassination was foiled when the agent spotted the muzzle of a gun protruding from a chain link fence a few holes from where Trump was playing golf at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach and agents fired on the position, sending the 58-year-old Routh fleeing before he was apprehended on I-95.
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“This was the first I heard about it,” said Oran Routh, the suspect’s 35-year-old son when contacted by the Daily Mail. “Was my father shot or injured?”
He told the outlet that his father hates Trump like “every reasonable person does,” adding, “I don’t like Trump either.”
The younger Routh said that his dad wasn’t violent and couldn’t believe that he would try to assassinate the former president.
“He’s my dad and all he’s had is a couple traffic tickets, as far as I know,” he said. “That’s crazy. I know my dad and love my dad, but that’s nothing like him.”
Routh explained that his father had gone to Ukraine after the war with Russia started in 2022 “to help volunteer and provide aid to those affected,” according to the Daily Mail. Routh did not have any military experience.
“He said he was at the beach, but I thought that meant the outer banks in Hawaii,” he said. “I didn’t ask him for more information because we’ve had a falling out. We’ve grown apart.”
“He’s not a violent person,” Routh said. “He’s a hard worker and a great dad. He’s a great dude, a nice guy, and has worked his whole f**king life.”
“I’ve never known him to own a gun or known him to do anything bats*** like this,” he added.
One former neighbor who lived next door to the elder Routh when he resided in Greensboro, NC expressed disbelief that he would attempt to assassinate Trump.
“Him, I mean, trying to shoot Trump. That’s a lot. I would have never guessed, and I would have swore up and down, no, that’s not him,” the unnamed woman told Greensboro Fox News affiliate WGHP. “I just can’t believe it. I mean, if I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I mean the pictures and stuff and all, then I wouldn’t be able to believe that.”
But she also said that she was unsurprised that guns were involved, and that Routh struck fear into the hearts of some people.
“I’ve seen the guns myself and all, and, yeah, they had a lot of guns and stuff over there, and, yeah, a lot of people were afraid of him back in the day,” she told the outlet.
“I mean I didn’t think he would go that far. I knew he was a little cuckoo, but assassinating the president? I mean he’s going to be going away for a long time,” the former neighbor said.
In a “rambling” text later on, Routh appeared to “justify” his father’s actions, according to the Daily Mail.
“I hate this game every four years and think that we all do, and if my father wants to be a martyr to how broken and disassociated the process has become from the real problems and practical solutions, then that’s his choice,” he said.
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